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It never fails. Whenever I work with NGOs and related diaspora simply seeking to provide humanitarian assistance and advocacy to their communities in their home countries, they always ask if I am tied to some intelligence agency. The answer is unequivocally, no. However, it is consistently perplexing when I am repeatedly told that the information I am able to derive from given communities and open source, is somehow beyond that which certain officials and institutions maintain. How is that? In this data driven era, it is imperative upon us to take the time to think for ourselves, to review and consider independently, and to move through civil discourse. There are groups around the world believing in the United States as the beacon of Freedom and Liberty, calling for our ear and support, even moral support such that our elected officials may heed. Yet, it is the silenced majorities who are against corruption, against terrorism, who are never heard, and never reached. At what point do our elected officials and respected institutions take heed to the Populous, in Public Service? The proud, the few, but by God, we need more.
By Velma Anne Ruth, M.Ed.It never fails. Whenever I work with NGOs and related diaspora simply seeking to provide humanitarian assistance and advocacy to their communities in their home countries, they always ask if I am tied to some intelligence agency. The answer is unequivocally, no. However, it is consistently perplexing when I am repeatedly told that the information I am able to derive from given communities and open source, is somehow beyond that which certain officials and institutions maintain. How is that? In this data driven era, it is imperative upon us to take the time to think for ourselves, to review and consider independently, and to move through civil discourse. There are groups around the world believing in the United States as the beacon of Freedom and Liberty, calling for our ear and support, even moral support such that our elected officials may heed. Yet, it is the silenced majorities who are against corruption, against terrorism, who are never heard, and never reached. At what point do our elected officials and respected institutions take heed to the Populous, in Public Service? The proud, the few, but by God, we need more.